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STREET WASHER B0X.

No. 447,503. Patented Mar. 3, 1891.

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GEORGE IV. ALDRIOII, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR OF FIVE- EIGHTHS TO JOHN L. SPENOE, OF SAME PLAGE.

STREET-WASHER BOX.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 447,503, dated March 3, 1891. Application led October 13,1890. Serial No. 367,957. (No model.)

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE W'. ALDRroH, a resident of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented an Improved Street-Tasher Box, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to an improved streetwasher box that shall contain the threaded spigot end of a pipe to which the street washer or hose is attached, also the cock or stem that governs the supply to the hose and the cock or stem that governs the feed from the main to both the hose-supply valve and the house, my object being to provide an instrumentality that shall prevent the indiscriminate use of the wrong cock or stem. To obtain this I use the mechanism illustrated by the accompanying drawings, wherein- Figure l illustrates, partly by cross-section, the manner in which my street-washer box is applied to the connecting-pipe between the water-main and an adjoining house. Fig. 2 is a plan view of my street-washerbox, showing the false bottom partly broken away and with the lid open. Fig. 3 is avertical section on the line c c, Fig. 2.

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A is a box or case, perforated at its base or bottom D so as to receive the upright valve cocks or stems a and b, and also the threaded spigot-rod J of the pipe, to which the hose is to be attached.

B is a lid that closes the box when not in use. A

E is a detachable false bottom, perforated to receive or expose one of the cocks or stems and to receive or expose also the upper end of the pipe J, but solid above the remaining cock or stem, so as to render it inaccessible.

d d are stops, which may be secured to the bottom D or to the false bottom E, to arrest the arm b on each stem a b in either of its extreme positions. These stops CZ, together with a nut II on pipe J may serve as a support to the false bottom E but other supports -may be used instead. The false bottom is retained in place by a nut I on pipe J, or by any other suitable lock or fastening. When the stems a b are of considerable length, a cap G, raised on and made part of the false bottom E, will serve to cover one of said stems, as shown. The object of the cap G or corresponding part of the solid part of the false bottom E is to prevent the use of the cock or stem @when the stem b alone should be used, and vice versa. By unscrewing nut I or ,equivalent fastening, raising and reversing the false bottom E, so that the cap G or solid .part will cover the stern b, the stem a will then be exposed and the stem b shielded.

Among the advantages of this box are the following: The cap G or solid part of the false bottom E prevents the masons or builders while at Work on an unfinished house to which the box belongs from regulating the hosesupply pipe by means of the main house-connection valve, which they are often wont to do, thus wearing the Wrong valve. Again, should the authorities of a city or town desire to take away the use of the hose-supply of the house, they can place the cap or solid part of false bottom G over the stem b, whose valvesupplies the hose, and by any suitable means of sealing the false bottom prevent the house-owner from using the said stem.

Having now described my invention, what I claim isl. A street-washer box provided with a perforated bottom D and combined with the reversible false bottom E, substantially as descri oed. y

2. In a street-washer box, the combination of the perforated reversible false bottom E with the valve-stems a b and pipe J, all ar-` ranged so that one of said valvestems is exposed for access through the false bottom, while the other valve stem is covered and rendered inaccessible by said false bottom, as specified.

3. The box A, combined with the valvestems a l?, pipe J, and false bottom E, raised to form the cap G, said cap rendering one of said valve-stems inaccessible, as specified.

GEORGE W. ALDRIOH.

Iitnesses:

HARRY M. TURK, n HARRY E. EVERDING. 

